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by otoburb 8y ago
>> It's really not. You will end up with more absolute savings by working in the bay area, than you will in Toronto in a similar living situation. Almost every expat Canadian working and saving in the US also has a little voice
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by otoburb 8y ago
The article doesn't mention the rest of Aleynikov's history, but he served one year in prison[1] until his NY Supreme Court acquittal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
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>> To flag information as incorrect, you need to take tokens and challenge the data. A challenge starts a vote and anyone in the DIRT network can vote with their tokens on what information is correct. The vote winner and majority vote
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> All kids in public schools deserve that. Teachers and students find it easier to teach and learn in an environment where most of the children score higher on standardized tests and are also generally more compliant. All kids in public
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de Blasio already thought about this. The criteria has nothing to do with race, and is clearly about academic performance. The intended outcome and policy itself is driven internally by diversity, but the actual criteria doesn't (and p
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>> [...] but they should encourage the underrepresented ethnicities to do better, [...] This policy change is exactly that - an attempt to encourage poorly performing students to do better, where a large majority of poorly performing
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> Yes. I expect the author's mother would seek out school districts with the lowest test scores (perhaps the lowest population of Asian-Americans) and send her daughter there instead. In that situation, the parents of a child who m
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I'm having trouble understanding the sentiment of your comment, but it seems you are deriding the "gifted" label bestowed by the NYC Department of Education. I agree that the label is unfortunate. From what I understand so fa
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Tracking and ability grouping have documented negative impacts on weak students. Placing a student in a remedial class becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, increasing the likelihood that his academic performance will fall further behind, a
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The mayor, de Blasio, is trying to institute a similar system that was in place for NYC kindergarten admissions over a decade ago. Prior to 2007, gifted and talented classes were skewed towards white and asians and the admissions process wa
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I was trying to figure out why this material might be toxic, and the article explains nicely: "Until now there has been uncertainty over how much carbon is drifting between the stars. About half is expected to be found in its pure form
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As per the FAQ, the claims system has been disabled until the trustee is ready to accept claims again: "Further, due to the stay of the bankruptcy proceedings, MTGOX bankruptcy claims filling system (the “System”), which was being prov
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Typo and didn't recheck due to lack of coffee. I meant to state the Estonian e-residency program is 3.5 years old.
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Somebody just updated it[1], ironically from NY state. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BitLicense&action...
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The Estonian e-residency program launched in December 2014[1], so it's about 2.5 years old. I'd imagine that if there was a really compelling reason to set up a similar program other EU countries would have prioritized and launche
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>> [...] requires the owner to have an address inside of the union. This would bode well for programs like the Estonian e-residency[1] initiative as I believe they also provide an EU address, although it might mean having to legally
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Any guesses where is the next Shenzhen going to be? Or is there now a dispersion/diaspora wave occurring that makes it difficult to determine a new center of gravity?
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You may be referring to the seven[1] or more[2] trademarks, not patents, that China recently awarded to Ivanka. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/business/ivanka-trump-chi... [2] https://
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Gitlab, thank you for posting your handbook that can be reviewed transparently ahead of time by prospective hires. The complexity of hiring in various countries and jurisdictions is often completely under appreciated by anybody who hasn&#x2
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Not Prepared for Retirement? Here’s a Solution: Don’t Retire(bloomberg.com)
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>> Throughout history, military power depended mostly on the quantity of two resources, wealth and population. I thought that military power depended primarily on the quantity of population and materiél . The latter is driven primar
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Climate change is making the Arab world more miserable(economist.com)
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Torontonians generally lock their doors, as do Vancouverites; so, definitely not all Canadians.
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>> By some estimates [0] Millenials are spending just $20/day! You may have missed the word "less": "By some estimates, Millenials are spending $20/day less than they were in 2016." The Gallop Poll[1]
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This is why I threw in the word "allegedly" above. The producers of a2 milk are trying to go with a new theory that claims that people who self-report as lactose intolerant aren't actually lactose intolerant, but that the c
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Oat milk[1] is the next fad after soy, almond and coconut milk. These are mainly for people who are lactose intolerant, although perhaps some people who aren't lactose intolerant prefer a different taste for lattes or cappuccino drinks
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>> If a bank handles U.S. dollars, they are under U.S. jurisdiction. I've always thought of Tether as the loose cryptocurrency equivalent of a eurodollar[1] facility. If the eurodollar was Bitfinex's original inspiration,
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>> Also, out of curiosity, what translation is that? First returned Google result in Firefox private mode[1] indicates this wording is specific to the King James Version (KJV). [1] http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew
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I think Gemini was the first in NY to launch institutional features back in late 2016[1], including the hallowed custodial service. My understanding is that without a qualified custodian[2][3], hedge funds with assets under management great
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>> HN must be full of middle class individuals with $1M+ USD networth. For the HN demographic that doesn't own a house and "only" pays rent, I'd agree with you. But another portion of the HN demographic that does

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